Hi all, I had intended to do this sooner, but I have filed a wishlist entry, with patch, for supporting this on bugzilla.
Best, ~G On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:48 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 9 December 2020 at 09:49, Martin Maechler wrote: > | Also, R allows the user to remove their own home directory, it > | should also allow to get a .libPaths() which contains nothing compulsory > | but R's own .Library {as only that can contain 'base' !} > > That would be a very nice-to-have feature! But right now, .libPaths() does > now allow this per my reading of the help page: > > ‘.libPaths’ is used for getting or setting the library trees that > R knows about (and hence uses when looking for packages). If > called with argument ‘new’, the library search path is set to the > existing directories in ‘unique(c(new, .Library.site, .Library))’ > and this is returned. If given no argument, a character vector > with the currently active library trees is returned. > > Hence I was trying to help OP approximate the behaviour via the > command-line > but count me in as in terms of supporting this in R itself if you want to > make such a change. > > Dirk > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel